What is the meaning of heliacal?

adjective

  • Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun.
    • usage: "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"
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